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CMU Approved
Approved: Deastro (SNAP Of The Day)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 21 May 2009
‘Daniel Johnston Was Stabbed In The Heart With The Moondagger By The King Of Darkness And His Ghost Is Writing This Song As A Warning To All Of Us’ puts today’s artist up there with Fiona Apple in the giving things long-title stakes and is perhaps an indication that 22-year-old wunderkind Randolph Chabot wants us to view his alter-ego Deastro as a little bit of an oddball. Or he just is. New album ‘Moondagger’ doesn’t suggest anything unhinged, however, sounding like a learning curve in distorted electro-pop, taking the quiet/loud rousing elements of post rock and the irreverent experimentalism of Dan Deacon, though without ever quite hitting the heights you’d like it to (unlike Deacon’s ‘Bromst’, for example’). It’s glistening and bleepy, then the band enter and it’s shoegaze on serotonin – youthful and dreamlike, and teetering on the edge of Explosions In The Sky-style towers of sound. ‘Toxic Crusaders’ is probably the track to get first and also investigate ‘Spritle’, which was something of a preview release and exemplifies the post rock references perfectly.
